For the past 18 years, the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG) hasorganised the International Smalltalk Conference, a lively forum oncutting edge software technologies that attract people from bothacademia and industry for a whole week. The attendees are bothengineers using Smalltalk in business and students and teachersusing Smalltalk both for research and didactic purposes.

As every year, this year's edition of the largest European Smalltalkevent will include the regular Smalltalk developers conference withrenowned invited speakers, a Smalltalk camp that proves fruitful forinteractions and discussions. Besides, this year will be held the - 6th edition of the Innovation Technology Awards where prizes will be awarded to authors of best pieces of Smalltalk-related projects - an international workshop on Smalltalk and dynamic languageshttp://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010/In ... chnologies

* New this year: - There will be a business day: thursday 16th of September 2010. The focus will be on "Agile Development Processes and Smalltalk"

- ESUG will offer 10 free entrance tickets. To get a free ticket you should send a mail to the esug board (board@esug.org) Subject: [ESUG 2010 Free entrance] + your name And you should write a small motivation.

* Attend the conference. We'd like to beat the previous record of attendance (156 participants at Brest and 170 people at Amsterdam)!

* Students can get free registration and hosting if they enroll into the the Student Volunteers program. See below.

Developers Forum: International Smalltalk Developers Conference------------------------------------------------------------------------This year we are looking for YOUR experience on using Smalltalk.In addition, we are looking for tutorials. Thelist of topics includes, but is not limited to the following:

How to submit?------------------Pay attention: the places are limited so do not wait till the lastminute to apply. Prospective presenters should submit a request toboard@esug.org AND stephane.ducasse@free.frfollowing the template below. Please use this template since theemails will be automatically processed!

Subject: [ESUG 2010 Developers] + your name

First Name:

Last Name:

Email where you can always be reached:

Title:

Abstract:

Bio:

Any presentation not respecting this form will be discardedautomatically

Innovation Technology Award------------------------------------------------------------------------We are proud to announce the 6th Innovation Technology Awards. Thetop 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive,respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awardsceremony at the conference. Developers of any Smalltalk-basedsoftware are welcome to compete. This year we will request 3-5min videos.More information at http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010/In ... ogy+Awards

Student Volunteer Program------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you consideredbeing a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep theconference running smoothly; in return, they have freeaccommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy theconference.More information athttp://www.esug.org/conferences/2010http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2010/St ... rs+program